Estimating changes in effective values of surface detention, depression storage and friction factor at the interrill scale, using a cheap and fast method to mold the soil surface micro-topography
with time and precipitation, it is necessary to isolate the impact of the micro-topography from the infiltration. Therefore the AA. developed a fast and cheap in-situ molding method that combines alginate, plaster and lacquer. Both the surface of a specific
soil and its artificial reproduction were measured with a laser scanner in order to assess the quality of the molding method. This novel molding method was applied to get 10 footprints of the micro-topography of a loamy bare soil, at different levels